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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Some questions about TWGMTR ...
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on: September 25, 2014, 06:25:45 PM
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Brian does sing falsetto on "Think About the Days" and sounds pretty good.
Ummm... I think that's Bruce. Sure I recall reading that somewhere. Brian is absolutely on it. Around 42 seconds and again 55 seconds. At :42 I know that's Brian on the high part, followed by Bruce on the higher part right? Does Foskett have any falsetto on TATD?
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Queers
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on: August 23, 2014, 10:46:19 PM
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It's funny, I was reading this thread earlier and then saw NJ punk band Titus Andronicus tonight. They covered Barbara Ann, which I'm pretty sure they've never played before. Bass player handled the falsetto very well.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike and Bruce Tour 2014
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on: August 04, 2014, 09:20:48 AM
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Noticing from the video just posted that Al and Brian are again in photos shown on the screen. This wasn't the case earlier this year. I'm glad, because it's kind of strange seeing a world presented where the only Beach Boys ever were Mike, Carl, Dennis, and Bruce. Also I'm surprised to see they show the original WIBN 45 with the Wilson-Asher credit. You'd think Mike would've had his name photoshopped in there.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Mike and Bruce Tour 2014
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on: August 01, 2014, 11:37:44 PM
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You gotta admit they all look like they're having a blast.
That said, from that clip I don't like what I'm hearing or seeing. I've been saying it for a while, the touring Beach Boys are a cheap, very cheap imitation of what The Beach Boys were. A knock off brand, it's nice to have them around for the general public but it doesn't do any justice to what that band was.
Each to their own... Personally I would say that they sound better than pretty much anyone could have imagined in 1998 when the decision was first made to grant Mike a licence. Controversial opinion, but from a purely musical perspective, the touring band often sounds better now than they did in the 90s when Al and Carl were still in the band. But a lot of that is simply due to Cowsill vs. Kowalski.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Stamos accused…
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on: July 29, 2014, 10:50:45 PM
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It's interesting to read the viewer comments on the actual video of the performance from YouTube, right after it was posted it seems some were skeptical...two years before this thread.
Just consider how many musicians and techs not named Wilson, Love, Jardine, Marks, or Stamos were involved that night. Due to professional reasons I'm sure not one wants to touch this with a ten foot pole.
The band or at least the drum section would most likely have been playing to a click track, having to sync up with the video for the parts where Dennis is "singing", right? They'd have the click and at least Dennis' vocal and perhaps some additional tracks playing in their ear so the video stayed as close as possible with the live band and live vocals being performed.
I'm just wondering how and why it worked out so the video feed crapped out, which would mean whatever was syncing with the audio tracks containing Denny's voice must have gone down too for this to happen...if it were just the video feed going down, you'd still have the click track and the audio feed going unless it was all on one source, like pressing play on a DVD and that's it. If the video feed crapped out, you'd still have the audio and Denny's voice going to the house and the musicians' monitors. The musicians would have noticed right away if they lost their audio feeds right? It would have had to be a total tech failure which brought the entire thing down at once, video/audio/sync...the whole shebang. Does it look like that's what happened?
Just trying to figure out what the hell actually happened. I had never actually seen that video until tonight.
It is interesting that you mention the failure of video feed. I was at a show with the Touring Band last fall, where the only video feed that failed was Carl from Knebworth for God Only Knows. The audience was prepped that it was a tape of Carl. And it is the only time I've seen this happen. Sabotage ? No. It just happened. The music was enough for the outdoor audience. The only light had been coming from the outdoor video screens. Darkness and GOK. Tribute footage that failed. It wasn't C50. And Stamos wasn't there. What you describe is almost exactly my question. Less technically, when you witnessed the video feed fail, was Carl's voice still heard singing the lead vocal as the band "backed" him live? If so, that's the scenario I'm curious about - It would suggest Denny's vocal track would have still been audible on Forever, as the audio feed ostensibly would have kept playing both in house and in the band monitors no matter what happened to the video being projected. Was Carl's voice still audible on GOK? Yes, moving, magnificent and all in the darkness. When a glitch becomes a blessing. Was that The Big E? It was kind of magical with Carl's voice kind of floating through the darkness.
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